Eating Disorders

What are Eating Disorders?   Eating Disorders are serious mental and physical disorders characterized by the disturbance in eating accompanied by difficult persistent thoughts and emotions related to food or body image. They affect 9% of the population including men and women, and people of…

For a long time, eating disorders have been understood largely as female disorders. Most of the research on this subject is conducted on females and most of the people in treatment are women. This creates an impression eating disorders affect women more predominantly than men.…